I've now played the campaign four times on varying difficulties and it genuinely never gets boring. Mixing up your play style and weapons with each new play through just proves how versatile the game can actually be and the sheer grace in your players movement just puts the icing on the cake making the entire experience one that just brings together everything you could want from a shooter.

As for the multiplayer side of things I've played around 260 hours of it in total now and even though the matchmaking will sometimes pit me against players who are way out of my league I will always give them a good scrap to the best of my abilities. With me being a G30 Titan taking on G60 or even higher Titans it just really pushes for a solid amount of team work just to survive never mind to actually win. But when you do it feels nothing short of amazing, especially if the other team are all playing Ronin's or worse yet Tone's thinking they are getting an easy win. Also the community that remains is probably the less toxic one I've remained at the center of for a very long time yeah you get the odd dick head spouting mum jokes like it's still 2006 but otherwise they are an extremely friendly bunch who communicate well in matches and even the reddit based network has served up a lot of players I now play with on a regular basis. Unlike many my Titan of choice is the extremely underrated Monarch class, I fucking love this class. Once you get a few upgrades under your belt it's a really great and very fun class.

I hit the record button as I searched for a match on Frontier Defense mode on Hard last night that has now expanded out to some other maps in the latest update and it was one of the most fun if nerve wrecking matches I've had to date. Here's the match in full...

Believe it or not next month it will have been a year since this first released already. Is anyone else still playing then?

I can only assume they were in dire financial straits given that they broke from Activision because they didn't like working under a large publisher in the first place. If not, that is stinking hypocrisy.

Either way, RIP Respawn. Feel bad for all those staff who are probably going to be retasked off projects onto making lootbox algorithms for Titanfall 3.

Just finished the campaign and it is great (apart from the fucking horrible wall running sections..). Shame that the studio is now probably making the inevitable walk to the EA gallows. Man, that sounds super edgy...

I do enjoy the conspiracy theory that EA wanted Titanfall 2 to release with the other games so it would hamper the sales and make the studio more likely to be bought outright by EA afterwards. Thereby gaining the IP and rights etc on the cheap.